Prehistoric Wilds – Dinosaurs

Dig up fossils, incubate eggs and raise your own dinosaurs – then ride them.

Prehistoric Wilds adds four fully animated prehistoric creatures that fit the vanilla look: blocky, hand-painted, with smooth animations for every action. No new GUIs or complicated machines are needed. You use the vanilla Brush, a single Incubator and your own hands.

🦖 The creatures

Every creature has hand-made animations: idle, walk and run with properly planted feet, roar, bite, and sleep (they really close their eyes at night). The Pteranodon also has wing-flapping, gliding and a folded-wing walk on the ground. Babies are smaller with bigger heads and grow up over time.

🦴 From fossil to dinosaur

1. Find fossils. Fossil Stone and Deepslate Fossil Stone generate underground, and Fossil Sandstone generates in sandstone. Use a Brush on them to uncover a fossil. You can also mine them with a pickaxe, but then there's only a 30% chance of getting the fossil.
2. Craft an Incubator. You need 5 Copper Ingots, 1 Glass and 1 Magma Block. The recipe unlocks when you find your first fossil.

    G      G = Glass
   CMC     C = Copper Ingot
   CCC     M = Magma Block
   

3. Incubate. Right-click the Incubator with a fossil. You can watch the DNA grow into an egg behind the glass, and after about 80 seconds the egg pops out.
4. Hatch. Place the egg. It cracks in stages and hatches in a few minutes. Put it within 2 blocks of a fire, campfire, lava or magma and it hatches twice as fast.
5. Imprinting. The baby bonds with the nearest player and is already tame.

Wild adults can be tamed too. Keep feeding them their favourite food until hearts appear. The T-Rex is the hardest to win over.

🐾 Living with your dinosaurs

• Sneak + right-click with an empty hand to toggle stay or follow.
• Right-click with a Saddle to saddle an adult, then right-click with an empty hand to ride. Use Shears to take the saddle off.
• Feed babies to make them grow faster. Feeding also heals them.
• Tamed dinosaurs defend you and attack whatever you attack.

Riding controls

• WASD to move and Sprint to go faster.
• Jump to leap. On the Pteranodon, hold Jump to climb and look around to steer. Release it to glide.
• Attack while riding: your mount bites whatever is in front of it, or roars if nothing is there.

🌍 Where to find them in the wild

• Tyrannosaurus: jungles and savannas (rare)
• Velociraptor: savannas, badlands and deserts (packs)
• Triceratops: plains, sunflower plains, savannas and meadows (herds)
• Pteranodon: beaches, stony shores, windswept hills, stony peaks and jungles

Spawn biomes are biome tags (prehistoricwilds:spawns_<creature>), so datapacks can change them.

📦 Versions

The mod is required on both the client and the server.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.